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Mike Morhaime "SC2 Proleague will open this year" - Page 27
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ckunkel1
United States181 Posts
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Nuclease
United States1049 Posts
If this happens, I want people like Wax and the team doing write-ups for it. In the style they are done now. Please! | ||
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DwD
Sweden8621 Posts
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Dakkas
2550 Posts
On March 18 2012 00:42 Chargelot wrote: Riot Games, LLC. Enough said. Forums is a necessity for any fucking MMO game, lets get that out of the way. It's a necessary expense. Community polls are cute, but it doesn't cost them anything. If I offered them $100,000.00 to neglect the poll results, they'd do it. They "sponsor" events, in the form of giving GOM a contract and collecting money. They don't "sponsor" events like Dr. Pepper sponsors MLG. Blizzcon was canceled (was that this year?), but normally it's the worlds best marketing toy, and it earns them money. We wait years for SC2 and Diablo 3 because a finished product sells more copies. They don't care about you, stop pretending they're Jesus, Inc. They care about money. It's not fucking shocking, they are a capitalist business. They're supposed to care about money. A few points, Blizzard have said that they actually lose money on Blizzcon and the employees if they want to go then they actually have to buy their own tickets. And what about Riot? Is that the best you came up with? Because really Valve and Riot are the only other major companies that are on a similar level to what Blizzard does for the community. you're just a jaded cynical person that's taking everything for granted. The difference between Blizzard at the other two is how they go about making money | ||
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Stanlot
United States5742 Posts
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djfoxmccloud
France185 Posts
They might say so to have an excuse not to have one this year but common' i doubt they loose money on this. | ||
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Dumboprime
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strongandbig
United States4858 Posts
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RvB
Netherlands6191 Posts
On March 18 2012 01:50 djfoxmccloud wrote: Blizard said they lose mone. But it is doubtful. They never released the number of online viewer which i assume is huge and i can't see how this event make them lose mone. They might say so to have an excuse not to have one this year but common' i doubt they loose money on this. Why lie about that they probably have it in the annual report whether they made a loss or not. Blizzcon is obviously a massive marketing tool so they're probably fine with making a loss for what they get in return. | ||
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Drake
Germany6146 Posts
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goding
22 Posts
On March 18 2012 01:50 strongandbig wrote: I don't know, I'm really worried that Kespa will try and enforce exclusivity again. That would either make their leagues irrelevant or slowly strangle the foreigner scene as the best players are kept out of foreigner tournaments. Either way, there's no room in my opinion for a Kespa-style exclusive league and a vibrant foreign tournament scene like we have now. They can't coexist, because the best players in the world will either be in one or the other. I dont understand when you say "kespa will try and enforce exclusivity again". They never did in the first place. They would let foreigners come and compete in courage tournament however they were not good enough to win that. So they were not picked up by teams and it became what it is now today. | ||
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Rinrun
Canada3509 Posts
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Aunvilgod
2653 Posts
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DDie
Brazil2369 Posts
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Linwelin
Ireland7554 Posts
On March 18 2012 02:03 DDie wrote: GOMTV has exclusive rights, how will that work out? Contract is expiring soon | ||
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Soft`Soap
Canada865 Posts
On March 18 2012 01:50 djfoxmccloud wrote: Blizard said they lose mone. But it is doubtful. They never released the number of online viewer which i assume is huge and i can't see how this event make them lose mone. They might say so to have an excuse not to have one this year but common' i doubt they loose money on this. there is absolutely no way that blizzard lies about this activision-blizzard is a PUBLICLY traded company and saying that they LOSE money on an event is NOT something that they want to do, but they have to do to remain transparent with their shareholders if you're really doubtful you can look up blizzard's finances, yes they ARE public, and they announce them at the end of every quarter(one should be coming up soon) if blizzard were to lie about LOSING money on an event, just to please forum trolls they would LITERALLY be risking the future of their company not to mention that they get audited by some pretty big companies who would be in HUGE risk if they didn't point out a 'lie' like this if you want to find out more http://investor.activision.com/index.cfm | ||
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Tunkeg
Norway1235 Posts
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Chriscras
Korea (South)2812 Posts
FTFY | ||
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Hesmyrr
Canada5776 Posts
On March 18 2012 02:02 Aunvilgod wrote: Could someone explain why they´d have to mix up the teams? Whats the problem with BW teams becoming SCII teams? We´d have a lot more teams, yeah, so what? The problem is that two games are not mutually exclusive. BW teams would perform poorly when forced to adapt to another game and their performance would suffer in both. For illustrated example, it's like forcing all LoL teams to play in DotA league will make the scene better as there would now be more teams; instead, it is going to turn out as farce. | ||
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Soft`Soap
Canada865 Posts
On March 18 2012 02:02 Aunvilgod wrote: Could someone explain why they´d have to mix up the teams? Whats the problem with BW teams becoming SCII teams? We´d have a lot more teams, yeah, so what? most SC2 teams would die if this were to happen the budget that the BW teams have in comparison to sc2 teams is so massive that sc2 teams wouldn't be able to compete now even if the bw teams switched to SC2, they probably wouldn't bring as many sponsors seeing as how SC2 is not as big right now but just as an example (and this is pure speculation) Flash and Bisu probably make more in salary than all of the korean team-based sc2 players get in salary I don't know exactly how much they make in salary but I think that they both make 200k+ (USD) a year (you can search on TL) I don't really remember any teams releasing that they pay their players other than TSL, and TSL paid FD around 23k (USD) a year right? whenever that was announced at least and they only paid like 4-5 of their players? | ||
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